It is a multicast address in the reserved multicast address range (224.0.0.x)
>From here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses it is assigned to the mDNS protocol. Probably best to google this - first hit is http://www.multicastdns.org/ HTH Luuk ***Beware Gmail reply-to*** On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:34:28 +1300, David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, we can see the the DNS lookups are working in both directions > (forward and reverse), but when I use ping it does something with > 224.0.0.251. Isn't that a multicast address? I don't know anything > about multicast (if that's what it is). What does this mean?
